Phil,
used in this context the backslash (\) prevents macro substitution.
In this case, just use (/) instead.
Also, see the FAQ on this:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/backslash.html
/Jesper
Kind regards,
Jesper Kj�r Hansen
Student Assistant
Department of Statistics
University of Southern Denmark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Philip Greenwood
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: some code that doesn't do what I expect
>
> I ran a do file that did something that I did not expect it
> do. Perhaps
> someone would like to try to reproduce this behaviour, or point out my
> mistake. I'm running Stata 8.2 on WinXP. Here's the log:
>
> *--snip--
>
> . do "test01"
>
> . version 8
>
> . use "data\sndata.dta"
>
> . local foo "a_great_big_fish"
>
> . save "data\`foo'.dta"
> file data`foo'.dta saved
>
> .
> end of do-file
>
> *--snip--
>
> I expected `foo' to evaluate to "a_great_big_fish" in the
> save command.
> Using a double slash fixes the problem ( i.e. -save
> "data\\`foo'.dta"- ).
>
> cheers,
> Phil
>
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